Get you a lover who'll fight as hard for you as left-wing Americans do for Black career criminals and South American narco-traffickers.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) November 28, 2025
Brutal. But accurate.
Year: 2025
Salt-N-Pepa
I knocked out 80 push-ups in each of three sets tonight; 240 total. I lost all those records years ago, but I believe I never even did that many in the army in only three sets.
Still getting stronger.
250MWh ‘Sand Battery’ to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services.
China’s BEV Trucks and the End of Diesel’s Dominance.
Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN with record trapping technique.
Secret behind Temple of Venus’s resilient construction uncovered.
How ‘Stranger Things’ Defined the Era of the Algorithm.
Russians Are Starting to Feel Real Economic Pain From Putin’s War.
Europe Fears It Can’t Catch Up in Great Power Competition.
How Sociotropic Aesthetic Judgments Drive Opposition to Housing Development.
A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs.
We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic.
Stress-induced sympathetic hyperactivation drives hair follicle necrosis to trigger autoimmunity. (In mice.)
The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism.
Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia. About damn time.
Sunday non-Funday
Not nearly as fun a Sunday as it sounds. Alas.
Git Up
I like open source, but if often spawns absolutely atrocious technology. For instance, Docker, Kubernetes and Git. All of them are poorly-designed and overly complex. None of them are all that well-suited for the use cases to which they are typically applied. Only Git works better than the tech that preceded it, and that’s only because it’s just shitty instead of incredibly shitty. The bar there was so low that anyone with reasonable coding skills and project management capabilities could exceed it.
These three technologies were adopted heavily because of their complexity, rather than in spite of it. That’s what developers are attracted to and that is who — largely — runs the tech world now. When it was more my type in charge (systems people), we gravitated to simpler, better-specified tech that was constrained, well-specified, focused and fast.
Those days are long gone now, and the world is much worse for it.
Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair. Evil.
Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use.
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates.
53 Hours and No Wi-Fi: Why I Loved Amtrak’s Slow Train to San Francisco.
Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia.
The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow? I hope not.
Boxy Boom
I was just thinking of the time my friend, who speaks five languages and is learning a sixth, forgot the English word for “speakers” due to being exhausted and called them “sound boxes.”
That makes me smile.
AI Ayo
MIT report: AI can already replace nearly 12% of the U.S. workforce.
I agree with that assessment. No matter what you’ve read — particularly if you’re on the left and predisposed to hate tech and any form of knowledge advancement that doesn’t relate to a new, innovative gender — the newest AI models are quite good at many things. Certainly they could replace most of the juniors in my own field that I’ve worked with over the years and many of the mid-level folks too.
No one is reckoning with how quickly this fact is being weaponized by the MBA class or that it’s already demonstrably occurring. Predictably, economists are and will be in denial about this at least a decade after it is already happening.
Clown College
The only thing I know about most people is they be clownin’.
SoL-N – Prédiction
Une petite chanson toute mignonne que j’ai trouvée.
Norm McDonot
When I try to use the internet like normies do — no adblock, no DNS filtering, no quality firewall — I’m like, “What the hell is going on? Why is all that crap flying around all over the screen? What is all that noise?”
I do not know how they do it. Couldn’t be me.
Chloro
What is the biggest misinformation you remember being taught in school?
That fungi are a type of plant.
I disputed this and noted that fungi were an entirely different kingdom of life, but was told to be quiet and learn it the way it was taught. Of course, I did not.
Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports.
Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies.’
Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo.
A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science.
Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing.
USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.
Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie.
Do What They Do
AI is useful in many instances and for many use cases. Just like everything else in known existence, most people are not that smart and thus are bad at using it.
Intelligence is multiplicative. That applies to AI just as much as it does anywhere else. Perhaps more so.
(In other words, smart people do smart things with AI. Dumbasses do dumbass things. Just as it always was and ever will be.)
Propofol
Why does the internet today feel so much “softer” compared to the 2005–2012 era?
Tons and tons of censorship and aggressive moderation so as to not piss off corporate advertising interests, mostly.
Also, wokesters and their cancel culture made the internet a lot worse. Combine those two and you have the anesthetized HR-ized borefest we have now. Also, this person sounds too young to remember the earlier era (pre-2004) where it was even more Wild West.